Never much cared for Buffy herself - or Angel for that matter, In both shows I found the supporting cast more entertaining... Is it inevitable that the hero ends up as the default straight (wo)man, dya think?

Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? ~~ Oddball

Yes I agree. In Buffy and Angel they had some great supporting characters who were an important part of the success of the two series. In Angel I thought this was particularly important since the main character was so flat. Indeed the character of Spike (James Marsters) was such an important one that after killing him off in the last episode of Buffy they had to resurrect him in Angel.

Meandering off topic ever so slightly (I do like a good meander) I loved it when James Marsters basically recreated the Spike character in an episode of Torchwood. (Although I'm not sure that Spike would ever had kissed Angel).

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” (Terry Pratchett).

Today I watched Phases, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and Passion from S2. The Mark Watches Buffy blog has got to the point where I last left off so I'm now watching along, his review of Phases posts today.

Buffy, Willow, Tara, and Dawn narrowly escape from Glory, but only because she is hit by a truck. Buffy and the Scoobies leave Sunnydale in Spike's RV, because Buffy fears that they will never beat Glory.

Glory was great.

Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? ~~ Oddball

there are even people that think that the whole star trek thing is nothing more than men in pijamas saying stupid things and that only loosers with no life could like that. Which of course is totally b*llsh*t, and there's nothing to respond to that, I just ignore that.

After looking at the list of episode to a certain degree I like:I only have eyes for you--niceband candy--funamends--maybe in part because it was a surprise when I bought the dvd, because this episode was completely censored on tv=wasn't shown, so I had no idea it existed.earshot--nicehelp--kind of heartbreakingtouched--you have to love spike in this episode

once more with feeling--the episode I've seen the most. Love it. tabula rasa-like it veeeery much